UPI Almanac for Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016

On Oct. 11, 1910, former President Theodore Roosevelt became the first U.S. president to take flight in an airplane.

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In this October 11, 1910, file photo of Col. Theodore Roosevelt takes off from Aviation Field in St. Louis, Missouri with pilot Arch Hoxsey. Roosevelt described the trip as, "the bulliest experience I ever had." UPI File Photo

In 1811, the first steam-powered ferry in the world, the Juliana, started its run between New York City and Hoboken, N.J.

In 1868, Thomas Alva Edison filed papers for his first invention: an electrical vote recorder to rapidly tabulate floor votes in the U.S. Congress. Edison's device was issued U.S. Patent 90,646 on June 1, 1869. Sadly, members of Congress rejected the apparatus and it was never utilized.

In 1906, the San Francisco Board of Education banned Japanese-American students from attending public schools, ordering that instead, they were to be taught in racially segregated schools. A compromise was reached in February 1907, allowing the students back into the schools with the Japanese government accepting new immigration restrictions for its citizens wishing to travel to the United States.

In 2008, the U.S. State Department removed North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terrorism. In return, North Korea agreed to give international inspectors access to its nuclear facilities and to continue disabling its plutonium processing project.